Open Thread for Readers for April 2019

Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general?

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Another long time reader who read romance novels in her teens, then took a long break before started back again about 20 years ago. She enjoys historical romance/fiction best, likes contemporaries, action- adventure and mysteries, will read suspense if there's no TSTL characters and is currently reading very few paranormals.

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As a reader well past my Young Adult years I am especially delighted when Sandra Antonelli has a new release. This Friday, March 29, the second of her Secret Service novels comes out. Forever in Your Service picks up with the British spy and the newly discovered love of his life thrown into romance and mayhem in New Mexico. Antonelli’s dialog reminds me of films like Charade, North by Northwest and It Happened One Night. I like to think this series shows what James Bond stories would be like if they were written by a woman.

Because I don’t preorder many books, it was a surprise last week when I realized I had six books on preorder with publication dates between March 18 and April 1. The first one was Sybil Bartel’s RUTHLESS, the next in her Alpha Bodyguards series. I read it in one sitting and went right back and started it again: enforced proximity, opposites attract, super-alpha hero. All my catnip centers were lit up!

This morning Ainsley Booth’s WICKED SIN downloaded and I started it right away. It’s part of Booth’s Forbidden Bodyguards (see a theme developing?) and has a heroine who was a “wild child” in previous books. It’s really good so far.

Upcoming: Molly O’Keefe’s MY WICKED PRINCE (royalty and stepbrother tropes); Julianna Keyes’s TEAM PLAYER (baseball player hero); Clare Connelly’s latest HP, THE SPANIARD’S BABY OF REVENGE; and Jackie Ashenden’s KING’S RANSOM, the third and final book in the Kings of Sydney series she’s written for Harlequin’s Dare line. The Dare line hasn’t impressed me much—but Kings of Sydney (and Caitlin Crews’s Hotel Temptation series) shows that the line is capable of producing quality books.

@Janine: The very same two that you did, Shelly Laurenston’s In a Badger Way and Courtney Milan’s Mrs. Martin’s Adventure. I am also likely to get the new Maria Vale, Forever Wolf, once my wallet cools down.

in the mean time I’m waiting to see on Friday when Antonelli’s Forever in Your Service as released matches the ARC I worked from.

Today Laurenston’s outrageous honey badgers with their swagger and utter disdain for playing nice are just what I needed.

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